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The Government has announced an additional €30m in funding and an extension to 2027 for the First Home Scheme (FHS).

Uncertainty in the global economy is likely to persist even if a global trade war proves short-lived, European Central Bank governing council member Gabriel Makhlouf said in a speech today in Dublin.

New figures from Wind Energy Ireland show that An Bord Pleanála approved seven wind energy projects in the first three months of 2025, with a combined capacity of 402 MW, and rejected none.

Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless has said "the flipside" of a possible brain drain from the US is "a great opportunity for Ireland".

A new recruitment drive has been launched to attract graduate planners into Ireland's county and city councils.

Wind and solar energy group Greencoat Renewables has agreed a deal to sell a portfolio of six Irish onshore wind assets for a total of €156m to Norwegian private equity firm HitecVision.

The temporary truce does not shift the underlying reality that the US and China are locked into a long-term cycle of tit-for-tat trade tariffs

The newest mortgage lender in the State, Núa Money, has announced rate reductions across its residential mortgage and equity release products.

A new survey shows a dramatic increase in the cost of raising a child - from birth to the age of 21 - in Ireland.

Bayer has today posted a slower decline in first-quarter adjusted earnings than the market had feared as strong prescription numbers for new drugs offset a drop in its soy and cotton seed business.

Retailer Marks & Spencer said today that some personal customer information was taken in the cyber attack that has crippled its online operation for more than three weeks.

Business support services company DCC has reported higher operating profits for the year to the end of March and said it intends to return up to £800m from the proceeds of a recent divestment to shareholders.

The US is to cut the low value "de minimis" tariff on China shipments to 54% from 120%, with a flat fee of $100 to remain, starting from May 14, modifying an earlier order imposed by Washington, a White House executive order has said.

Britain's jobs market showed further signs of a slowdown as employment fell and growth in wages cooled, according to official data published today that is likely to reassure the Bank of England that inflation pressures are waning.

Nearly eight in ten international banks in Ireland say global political tensions could hit their business in the next five years.

Applegreen is set to open Ireland's first Taco Bell restaurant this summer, with more to open over the next five years.

Tánaiste Simon Harris is expected to express concern to the Cabinet that last week's outline trade deal between the United States and the UK could formalise tariffs.

SIPTU members in the AbbVie pharmaceutical plant in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, have served notice of industrial action commencing on Monday 19 May in a dispute over pay.

American Bitcoin, a new bitcoin miner backed by US President Donald Trump's two eldest sons, said today it will list on the Nasdaq via an all-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining.

The United States and China have announced a deal to cut tariffs on each other for a period of 90 days as they seek to de-escalate their ongoing trade war.